Genesis

I've bought my own dot com! I've been meaning to make my own proper website for ages, and haven't programmed in html for like 10 years

I've been watching a lot of Dragon's Den lately, and reading a "how to get rich" book...nothing specific in them made me do this - I just finally motivated myself to get started...after all, I am over 30 now!

First of all, I figured that my bookmarks are all over the place...on my Mac Mini, on my wife's laptop, on our MacBook, on my Mac at work...and in many browsers - Safari, Firefox and IE! I've even saved them into emails from my previous job, just in case! What I decided was I needed a website which meant you could take your bookmarks with you...like what hotmail did for email...

I had a look to see if there was anything out there like it already, and it turns out some site called delicious has beaten me to it! Damn, the best ideas are already taken AND it sold to Yahoo! for $15-30m!!!

So then I had a go on delicious and it inspired me to come up with something similar, but different...simpler...I've had a look at what's out there, and without disclosing my idea at this early stage, I can't see one which does my new adapted idea better :)

On the train home from work, I had a flurry of ideas for the name of the site...got home, and nearly all of them were already taken! I ended up registering www.yewhew.com

To me, this sounds like yahoo, youtube and google all rolled into one! That's not to say I'm launching a search engine or video site!!

I had a play around with some icons at work, and now, on my Sunday morning off, I've figured out a bit of html code, and for the first time, taught myself how to create a favicon.ico !

Oh, and finally got round to starting a blog! My future ones won't be this long, it's just because it's the beginning! I'll have to put my time into the site more, and spend less time on facebook!! Plus I'll need to figure out how to post this to my site as well!

As well as Dragon's Den and "Think Yourself Rich", my internet inspirations/role models over the years have been Sabeer Bhatia (creater of hotmail, sold it for $400m to Microsoft), Alex Tew (milliondollarhomepage, a 21 year old student), Mark Zuckerberg (facebook), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us) and Adam Croft (a 23 year old SEO who runs his own business and hosts my site!)

I can't wait for yewhew.com to take shape, so I can disclose what my idea is! I don't want to give it away at this stage in case there are any copycats who beat me to it...!